Combined mop-wringer and squillgee



(No Model.)

J. ZIV 8v N. DAVIS,

COMBINED MOP WRINGER AND SQUILLGEE. No. 431,100. Ylamented July 1, 1800.

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` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONAS ZIV AND NATHAN DAVIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED MOP-WRINGER AND SQUILLGEE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,100, dated July 1, 1890.

Application led April 19, 1889. Serial No. 307,784. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JONAS ZIV and NATHAN DAVIS, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Mop- Vringer and Squillgee Combined, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object to provide a squillgee and mop-head combined, which at the same time has wringing-rollers for the mop-rag; and with these objects in View our invention consists of the novel devices and combination of devices hereinafter' described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of the device as used for scrubbing, and Fig. 2 the same in position for rinsing and wringing out the moprag. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the mop and squillgee-head, and Fig. 4 a transverse vertical section of the same.

Corresponding letters of reference in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

A denotes the mop and squillgee-head, being a rectangular frame, provided with a socket a for securing the handle B. Against the side opposite to handle-socket a the head A has secured a piece of sheetfrubber C by a plate c and screws b, the latter being tapped into the head A. The edges of rubber C project from each side of head A a'sutlicient distance to be applied as a squillgee for scraping the floor.

The sides of the frame of head A have slots Land the upper ends of these slots d provide j ournal-bearings for the rubber roller D. Another rubber roller E has journals of greater length extending through the slots d of head A and resting in bearing-blocks e, guided in semi-cylindrical pockets f, formed on the sides of head A, each block e being pushed upward by a spiral spring g, inserted in pocket f below block e.

The sides of head A have slots h commu nicating wit-h the lower ends of slots d for 5o inserting or removing rollers D and E, and

these slots hl also extend through one side of pockets f.

The mop-rag I is a rectangular piece of fabric suitable to absorb a large amount of water. This mop-rag I is hemmed at each end over the middle portion of a rec-tangularly-bent wire frame i, having at its opposite portion a wooden handle K, provided with an eye or ear Z. The socket a of head A is providedwith a hook m on each side for coupling either eye or ear Z of handles 7c. The mop-head A is also provided with lugs n, forming shoulders for supporting the mophead on the rim of a bucket while rinsing and wringing the mop-rag, as shown by Fig. 2. This mop-rag I, being inserted between rollers D and E near one end thereof, so that the hemmed end thereof shoulders against the rollers, the mop-rag is doubled and its opposite handle k is suspended by the eye l thereof to the hook m, when said mop-rag, projecting from under squillgee-r-ubber C, upon being drawn over the floor, will absorb the dirty Water, and, after having soaked in suicient Water, the under handle K is disconnected from its hook m, when the mop-rag I is plunged into a bucket with water, the mophead A, with its lugs n, resting upon the rim of such bucket, and then, after rinsing the mop-rag, the operator grasps the upper handle K and pulls the mop-rag through between the rollers D and E for wringing the water therefrom, after which this handle K, being coupled to the other hook m, and the mophead being reversed, the operation of mopping is continued. It will be readily seen that after each such wringing' operation the opposite end and side of the mop-rag comes into contact with the iioor.

For using the head A as a squillgee the moprag I is folded upon one side of the said head,

while the edge of rubber C of the opposite side is brought to bear upon the door.

It will be readily seen that the mop-head thus constructed with a wringer, in combination with a rectangular' mop-rag provided with handles to both ends for drawing it once through the wringer after each rinsing, will make the mopping of floors very easy, since it is neither necessary for the operator to kneel IOO upon the Hoor nor to Wet his hands, While at mop-rag I, having handles K, with eyes Z, al1 Io the same time the squillgee-rubber will assist substantially as set forth.

inlooseningthe dirt adheringto the floor to be In testimony whereof we affix our signareadily taken up afterward by the mop-rag. tures in presence of two Witnesses.

5 What We claim is- JONAS ZIV.

The mop-headA, having wringing-rollers NATHAN DAVIS. D and E,1ngs n, and hooks m, and having se- NVitnesses: cured against its bottom by plate c and screws WILLIAM H. LOTZ, b a plate of rubber C, in combination with OTTO LUBKERT. 

